Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Claiborne Pell (D-R.I.) responded in a December 10, 1975 letter that while he supported the project, State Department approval was unlikely because of "recent Cuban encouragement of Puerto Rican independence and Cuban intervention in Angola...
...January 7, Charles S. Bergen '77, a Classics player and a Crimson editor, received a letter from Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) containing a similar warning. Kennedy noted that the State Department "has turned aside proposals for Cuban-U.S. baseball competition...
...resolution, presented by Senegalese President Leopold Senghor, this group urged that all fighting in Angola cease immediately and a government of national unity be formed. The resolution further called for an end to all outside military aid to Angola, a demand that was aimed at both the Soviet and Cuban support for the M.P.L.A. and the help the other two factions have been receiving from Zaire, South Africa and the West...
...week's end, that prospect seemed increasingly dim as M.P.L.A. forces, equipped by a massive Soviet airlift of arms and equipment and aided by some 7,500 Cuban soldiers, routed the F.N.L.A. in one battle after another on the northern front. The most important town to fall into M.P.L.A. hands was the provincial capital of Uige (formerly Carmona). Once considered impregnable, the F.N.L.A. stronghold was abandoned without a fight after an M.P.L.A. rocket assault. After the fall of Uige, the M.P.L.A. captured the nearby airfield of Ngage, which had been the F.N.L.A.'s major supply point for arms...
...less obvious bias of The Crimson lies in the article's reference to Cuban "volunteers" fighting in Angola. The word "volunteers" seems to imply some sort of loose group of individuals who are motivated by their own belief in the righteousness of their cause. It is hard to see how this is the case with the Cubans in Angola. Cuban Premier Castro did not publicly announce that Cubans were fighting in Angola until January 15, 1976, so it seems doubtful that Cuban individuals were able to volunteer to help the Angolans before even knowing that such an option was available...